"Mr Fox crept up the dark tunnel to the mouth of his hole. He poked his long handsome face out into the night air and sniffed once." Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the three meanest and nastiest farmers you could ever meet. They are determined to get Mr Fox and together they plan to shoot, starve or dig him out of his hole. But what they don't know is that they are not dealing with just any old fox. Mr Fox is much cleverer than they are, and he has a cunning plan of his own....